MADD Canada Fights Drug-Impaired Driving

In its new “If you’re high, you can’t drive”
message, MADD Canada is targeting young people who use cannabis
(marijuana or weed).

The anti-impaired driving group reports that 20% of high school
drivers drove within one hour of using marijuana and that nearly
one-fourth have been a passenger of a vehicle in which the driver
had been using drugs before driving.

MADD Canada’s goal is to educate people that drug-impaired
driving is as dangerous as alcohol-impaired driving.

The traffic safety group has partnered with police departments
in urging the Canadian Parliament to pass new drug-impaired driving
legislation, which is expected to occur this Fall.

People killed by drug-impaired drivers are just as dead as those
killed by alcohol-impaired drivers.